What You Can Learn About PR from Dave McClure • Hacker News Board

Re: What You Can Learn About PR from Dave McClure

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Post by mtrimpe » Thu, Jan 09, 2014, 3:43 PM UTC

shiftpgdn wrote: post #7

benjaminwootton wrote: post #3

I don't understand why the first Tweet is offensive or disrespectful? Same goes for the PG comments last week. People are very quick to escalate stuff like this when there are enough real injustices around where they could be targeting their time and efforts.

Because there is now a culture of co-opting or manufacturing outrage as part of some sort of ridiculous social justice movement. Unfortunately twitter, tumbler, etc gives idiots a loud mouthpiece for things like this when previously they would have just been ignored.

What if your local football team was trying to recruit more technically minded people and tweeted this:

    YO GEEKTARDS: y u nerds no apply yet? only 6 days left!

Would it be 'manufacturing outrage' if you made a comment about that not being the best way to go about things?

Re: What You Can Learn About PR from Dave McClure

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Post by gdilla » Thu, Jan 09, 2014, 3:55 PM UTC

benjaminwootton wrote: post #3

I don't understand why the first Tweet is offensive or disrespectful? Same goes for the PG comments last week. People are very quick to escalate stuff like this when there are enough real injustices around where they could be targeting their time and efforts.

hey tonedeaf brogrammer.... /snark

Re: What You Can Learn About PR from Dave McClure

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Post by neuro » Thu, Jan 09, 2014, 4:06 PM UTC

benjaminwootton wrote: post #3

I don't understand why the first Tweet is offensive or disrespectful? Same goes for the PG comments last week. People are very quick to escalate stuff like this when there are enough real injustices around where they could be targeting their time and efforts.

Any usage of Ebonics no matter how playful can upset a person, especially when that person hangs out with butterflies in designer clothing hovering over the unwashed peeps is my guess.

Re: What You Can Learn About PR from Dave McClure

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Post by collyw » Thu, Jan 09, 2014, 7:20 PM UTC

mtrimpe wrote: post #11

shiftpgdn wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because there is now a culture of co-opting or manufacturing outrage as part of some sort of ridiculous social justice movement. Unfortunately twitter, tumbler, etc gives idiots a loud mouthpiece for things like this when previously they would have just been ignored.

What if your local football team was trying to recruit more technically minded people and tweeted this: YO GEEKTARDS: y u nerds no apply yet? only 6 days left! Would it be 'manufacturing outrage' if you made a comment about that not being the best way to go about things?

Wouldn't offend me, but I wouldn't expect them to get many applications either.

Re: What You Can Learn About PR from Dave McClure

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Post by MattGrommes » Thu, Jan 09, 2014, 7:46 PM UTC

benjaminwootton wrote: post #3

I don't understand why the first Tweet is offensive or disrespectful? Same goes for the PG comments last week. People are very quick to escalate stuff like this when there are enough real injustices around where they could be targeting their time and efforts.

Well, you're not a woman who has to put up with cat-calling and name-calling on the street so I wouldn't expect you to see it as disrespectful. Mr. McClure didn't see it as disrespectful at first either until a number of his followers helped him understand why it would be.

This article left out a bunch of the discussion he had with people who called him out on his choice of words, it's worth reading.